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Abided- To accept or act in accordance with a rule or decision.
Anathema- A formal curse by a pope or council of the Church, excommunicating a person.
Bewailing- Express bitterness by complaining about it to others.
Doled- Benefit paid by the government to the unemployed
Amidships- In the middle of a ship
Beset- Trouble or threaten persistently
Fiend- A wicked and cruel person
Girdled- Something surrounding a belt
Respite- short period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant.A short delay permitted before an unpleasant obligation is met or a punishment is carried out.
Book: He was numb with grief, but got no respite for one night later merciless Grendel struck again with more gruesome murders.
Sentence: During long classes, I need to have a short respite to walk around.
Wassail-Spiced ale or mulled wine drunk during celebrations for Twelfth Night and Christmas Eve.
Book: Then as dawn brightened and the day broke Grendel’s powers of destruction were plain: their wassail was over, they wept to heaven and mourned under morning.
Sentence: We enjoyed a delicious cup of the wassail at the Christmas Party.
Prowler-A person who moves stealthily around a place with a view to committing a crime.
Book: Then a powerful demon, a prowler through the dark, nursed a hard grievance.
Sentence: The police caught the prowler moving around the bank before he robbed it.
Strove- Make great efforts to achieve or obtain something.
Book: For the killing of Abel the Eternal Lord had exacted a price: Cain got no good from committing that murder because the Almighty made him anathema and out of the curse of his exile there sprang ogres and elves and evil phantoms and the giants too who strove with God time and again until He gave them their reward.
Sentence: The boy strove in college to become a doctor.
Torques- A twisting force that tends to cause rotation or A neck ornament consisting of a band of twisted metal, worn esp. by the ancient Gauls and Britons.
Book: Nor did he renege, but doled out rings and torques at the table.
Sentence: The people at the party were taking off there torques and showing them off.
Barbarous-Savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal
Boast- to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especiallyabout oneself
